LOOK SEE Wesley W Bates Wood Engraver (2017)

One of the great pleasures of working on LOOK SEE was collaborating with artist and wood engraver Wesley W Bates Wesleys work has long accompanied Wendell Berrys poetry When he agreed to provide original images for our film we were truly thrilled Because each image involves such painstaking effort we asked Wesley to film a block from start to finish At two hours long the video is a distillation of three days of his effort And Wesley provided over ten such engravings along with the films signature block of Wendell Berry